X-bEnCH ... Alpha Release Coming ASAP ...

[JimNeray]

Here is a short preview video of my X-bEnCH project.

Visuals are really crapy at this time but wait and see

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75Xu2ZEGgpE

[Cammy]

Wow, what a nice surprise! X-bEnCH looks fantastic, I'd love to try it out when it's ready!

[JimNeray]

At this time i need some help for gfx/msx and alphatesting.

I think alpha version will be ok soon

Actually displaying 160 colors on a simple A600 :roflmao:

[Cammy]

I hope one of our resident graphic artists sees this and offers to help!

[kolla]

Care to explain what it is? I watched the video, but I still don't get it.

[JimNeray]

@kolla:

What is it ? Mmmm. At the start of the project my idea was just to code a cool list launcher with a lot of colours and sound to start some games/apps without loading the sad and slow 4 colours workbench. In the idea something who's looking like an oldschool trainer/crack'tro with some cools chiptunes in background.

At this time the project is the same but more complete/leached. The idea is now that X-bEnCH is not just a cool launcher but can be totally autonomous. It'll have a cli and a files/dirs manager integreted so you can boot on xbench and do what you have to do without loading a workbench.

The project's target is not highly modified configurations but rather a vanilla amiga with an hard disk. Or maybe a CD32/CDTV with a compilation on a cd and X-bEnCH to manage it as the first interface loaded.

Hope you've understand me and my poor english ... :angry:  :lol:

[JimNeray]

After 13 long month of work the first public release of X-bEnCH is finaly out !
X-bEnCH is at this time a cool front end to lauch .exe or whdload but  will be able to totaly replace the workbench Gui in the future.
It can auto scan all your whdload .slave or .exe to let you use it from keyboard or joystick.

Thanks to Gibs and Camy for her help and bug tracking.

Remember that at this time X-bEnCH is totaly Alpha so use it at your own  risks and be welcomed to return all suggestions or bugs.

Thanks for reading.

You can download the 0.1 Alpha release here : http://xbench.free.fr/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=25